by Sister Susan Marie | Jul 18, 2022 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
Discuss this line: “it costs no more to sigh in God and to God and for God than to sigh and complain without making good use of it.” If we’re going to take the energy for something, why not do so as a prayer? Do you find it difficult...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jul 14, 2022 | Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
Often the saints bring to light this or that aspect of the life of Jesus through theirexistence and their works. If we asked Saint Francis de Sales what feature of the face of theChrist had seduced him more particularly, what his teaching amounted to for him, hewould...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jul 11, 2022 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales, St. Jane de Chantal
: How can this short letter teach us something about the nature of the Church, about the importance of relying on each other?How might this little reflection on floating on some planks of wood teach us something about the theology of salvation by faith and...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jul 4, 2022 | Discernment Sundays - Chat Room, Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
How can we become more attuned to Christ’s omnipresence, especially since he is “waiting for us everywhere”?If the Eucharist can give us eternal life, why then are there people who still fall away from the Lord?St. Francis...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jul 1, 2022 | Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
As summer arrives, we wish to live a few weeks at a more relaxed pace. We sometimes stop at the side of the road to contemplate for a few moments a landscape bathed in light. In thus admiring creation, we enter, consciously or not, in the very movement of God. On the...
by Sister Susan Marie | Jun 28, 2022 | Salesian Spirituality, St. Francis de Sales
St. Francis wrote abundantly on the Holy Eucharist. Here is a sample of his thoughts, for your reflection “The Holy Eucharist is the perfect Communion of Saints, for it is the food common to angels, and sainted souls in Paradise, and ourselves; it is the...